Tenured faculty can be dismissed for reasons of financial exigency. If the employment contract provides a specific definition of fiscal exigency and the processes to be used in effecting retrenchment, then those terms govern in lieu of constitutional due process. In the absence of such guidance, courts are willing to allow dismissal for reasons of…

The 11 items in this annotated bibliography on school-based management provide information on the pros and cons of the decentralization of budgeting, the administrative role, site management, and decision-making. Also discussed are the autonomy of schools, principals as educators with managerial skills, and education vouchers. The publications…

Federal governmental impact on the University of Iowa has four forms. The first and most significant is through expenditures on education, student aid, research, health service, and similar efforts. Dramatic variations in the level or kind of expenditures in these areas have far greater effects on higher education programs than do regulations. The…

Sponsored by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC), a statewide coordinating agency for higher education, the Performance Funding Project is a developmental effort now in its fourth year. The purpose of the project is to explore the feasibility of allocating some portion of state funds to public colleges and universities on a…

The relationship between faculty bargaining and the loss of institutional autonomy is explored by examining the collective bargaining experience of the Pennsylvania State College and University system. The study is chronological, tracing the theme through three stages: (1) the governance of the state system before collective bargaining (1960-71);…

The consequences of planned and unplanned developments in higher education since 1968, such as the Open University, the Independent University, stagnation in student demand, and especially, the disintegration of the University Grants Committee system of financing in universities, are considered. (Author/JMD)

Explores the impact of increasing outside controls on the decision-making process and the operating prerogatives of presidents and local boards in areas such as accounting requirements, increasing data requests, contractual controls, contract enrollment procedures, dependence on advice of legal counsel, performance audits, program controls, and…

Many educators are expressing doubts about the propriety and timeliness of the movement to legislate and mandate institutional accountability, but the trend continues with encouraging results. (MSE)

Provides an annotated bibliography of ERIC materials dealing with the community college mission, educational quality, maintaining an effective faculty, effects and management of retrenchment, and the state role in community college education. (LAL)

Extensive organizational changes made in an Australian university during a period of 10 years are discussed, including the issues of the government's role in forcing a merger, other forces in higher education, funding, administrative change, educational reorientation, and conflicts and resistance within the institution. (MSE)

This article discusses Supreme Court cases bearing upon the legal parameters for permissible government regulation of religious elementary and secondary schools. Two legal strategies of religious interests, traditional and radical, are described, followed by a discussion of strategies at the state level. (TE)

The variety of definitions given to "academic freedom" is discussed, and their relevance, applicability, and consequences for various groups and individuals and concerning teaching, learning, research, and publication are examined. (MSE)

Differences in institutional autonomy, resource allocation, and planning in government-university relationships are compared for Alberta, which abolished its intermediary body (IMB), a coordinating agency in 1972, and British Columbia, which has had a Universities Council since 1974. (Author/MSE)

The Vatican's statement on Catholic universities outlines the objective of strengthening Catholic higher education worldwide and discusses the ecclesiastical and pastoral functions of the institutions, their role in society and in the church, Catholic university types, the environment and curriculum orientations, and planning and cooperation. (MSE)

The composition, mandate, and activities of the Council of Universities of Quebec since its origin in 1969 as an advisory board to the department of education are described and characterized in terms of university autonomy and government responsibility. It is found to be, by its nature, unstable in its authority. (MSE)